Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Cc: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] EAPI must be at least a single char.
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:13:44
Message-Id: 20584.3387.660954.8184@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] EAPI must be at least a single char. by Brian Harring
1 >>>>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Brian Harring wrote:
2
3 > The example regex allowed for
4 > EAPI=
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6 > Which isn't used, alloewd, nor desired; at best, that's short hand
7 > for EAPI=0.
8
9 The regexp was never meant to match exactly what is allowed.
10 It matches a superset, and if the matched substring turns out to be an
11 illegal or unknown EAPI, then the PM can catch it after parsing.
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13 Otherwise, an empty EAPI is already forbidden by section 3.1
14 "Restrictions upon Names".
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16 Ulrich

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